Improvement in combined pen and pencil-holder and knife



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WILLIAM A. MORSE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

l Leners Patent No. 87,583, datedMmh 9, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WI'LLLAM A. MORSE, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylva-` nia, have invented a new and improved Instrument for Sharpening Pencils, that can be readily attached to and detached from a common wood pencil; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the annexed drawings- Figure l represents a sheet-metal blank, from which the knife-handle and spring-clasp or cylinder are formed.

Figure 2 is a front view of the same after it is formed or pressed into shape.

Figure 3 shows the same attached'to a common leadpencil or the top of a pen-holder.

Figure 4 is the knife-blade, adapted to t the handle G. Y

Figure 5 shows the kuife-handle and springclasp in section, with back-spring F attached.

The blank C B, iig. l, is cut with die and punch from such steel as is generally used in the manufacture of steel pens, though other metal may be used.

This'blank is formed up, as' shown at fig. 2, on a mandrel, in suitable dies, worked in a screw-press. The process is well understood by manufacturers of steel pens and peu-holders.

I then inserta mandrel, flattened at one end, and press the Whole in a suitablybrmed die, which forms the handle O, lig. 2, and leaves the springvclasp or`cylinder B of suitable size to firmly clasp the end of a -can-Abelmanufactured for one dollara gross.

The manner of usingmy invention will be readily understood by the' above description.

What I claim as my inveution,`and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A knife-handle, C, with cylindrical spring-clasp B, substantially as shown and described.

2. The above-described instrument, in combination with a pencil or pen-holder, substantially as shown, and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM A. MORSE.

Witnesses:

L'. A.. DAVIS, H. W. GARLON. 

